Action/Adventure - Director: The Wachowski Brothers - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Jada Pinkett
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1977 - Action/Adventure - Director: Clint Eastwood - Original Language: English - Classification: 18 years and over - Starring:Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, Pat Hingle, William Prince, Bill McKinney
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Advantages: main reasons for the fall Disadvantages: quite old
system to determine how new emperors would be selected. The choice was always open to debate between the old emperor, the Senate, the Praetorian Guard (the emperor's private army), and the army. Gradually, the Praetorian Guard gained complete authority to choose the new emperor, who rewarded the guard who then became more influential, perpetuating the cycle. Then in 186 A. D. the army strangled the new emperor, the practice began of selling the throne to the highest bidder. During the next 100 years, Rome had 37 different emperors - 25 of whom were removed from office by assassination. This contributed to the overall weaknesses of the empire.
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During the latter years of the empire farming was done on large estates called latifundia that were owned by wealthy men who used slave labor. A farmer who had to pay workmen ...
Advantages: Excellent acting, compelling story, fascinating, great cast, wonderful script Disadvantages: Very basic special effects (but the acting compensates!)
story with some outstanding performances that you really should see.
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"THE EPIC THAT NEVER WAS"
This is a 70-minute documentary narrated by Dirk Bogarde and concentrates on the film adaptation of I, Claudius which began filming in 1937. It starred Charles Laughton as Claudius, with Flora Robson as Livia, Emlyn Williams as Caligula and Merle Oberon as Messalina.
The filming only lasted a few weeks. Laughton had problems getting into the part and had regular breakdowns on set, while Oberon had a serious car crash and couldn't continue. As these were the two major stars involved, the whole film was abandoned.
The documentary is filmed in the 1960s in black and white and is interesting to watch, but probably just the once. Parts of it really drag and the clips of the film are often slow and rather dull, especially in ...
Advantages: psychological, michael douglas, social realism, dark humour Disadvantages: depressing
must first make a purchase to be granted change. Fair enough, but eighty five cents for a soda doesn't leave him enough money for the phone call; grabbing a baseball bat from behind the counter, D-FENS proceeds to bash every overpriced item in the place in a fit of rage, then agrees a price of 50 cents for the soda, pays for it, and walks off, with his anger subsided.
As the story unravels we, the audience, are forced to make a distinction between an ordinary man and a deranged psychopath. Mid-way through things are taken to a new, hilarious level when D-FENS pulls a gun on the irritating manager of a fast food restaurant after he refuses him breakfast for being two minutes over the deadline.
Falling Down could quite easily be pigeon holed as a black comedy with its often cartoonishly over the top scenes of violence, but it is its ...
This collection of historical, action dramas featurees GLADIATOR, THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE and SPARTACUS.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK; UNIVERSAL MUSIC OPERATIONS
Release date
02/10/2006
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
8245851
Barcode
5050582458510
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
This collection of historical, action dramas featurees GLADIATOR, THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE and SPARTACUS. GLADIATOR - A violent drama set in Roman times under the rule of Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Maximus, a Roman general, finds himself caught up in the battle for the throne when the Emperor chooses him over his son Commodus. When Maximus discovers that his family has been slaughtered he allows himself to be captured and thrown into the gladiator games as a slave. THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE - This classic film re-enacts the spectacular collapse of perhaps the greatest dominion the world has ever known. Pestilence, greed and corruption bring a once-proud empire to its knees. SPARTACUS - The epic story of a slave who fights for freedom. Set in the time of the Roman Empire in 72 BC, a young boy witnesses his father's murder before becoming a slave to the Rome. Years later he leads a rebellion.
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